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“We support the efforts of the Venezuelan electoral authorities and wish the people of Venezuela success and peace in the upcoming elections,” he said. The Russian official also declared that Moscow will be sending a team of international observers for the May 20 presidential elections. The news came ...

Venezuela and Panama on Thursday agreed to restore their respective ambassadors and reestablish air links as they sought to patch up a bitter diplomatic row, ... The diplomatic crisis erupted in late March when Panama said it had added a string of senior Venezuelan officials, including Maduro, to a list of ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Spanish authorities acknowledged on Wednesday that a married couple with links to Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez has been arrested in a case of suspected corruption in their home country. Officials in Madrid said they detained the pair at Venezuela's request.

WHO said they are working alongside both Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and Venezuelan authorities to remedy the situation. The UN has advocated that authorities provide free screening and treatment to stop the spread further, irrespective of the legal status of the migrant. "What this calls for ...

Merida, April 23, 2018, (venezuelanalysis.com) – Candidates for Venezuela's May 20 elections kicked off their campaigns Sunday as the country's electoral authorities clarified campaigning regulations. Whilst numerous local events were held for council candidates, the six presidential candidates held a ...

... Tachira in Venezuela, to understand the dimensions of the Venezuelan refugee crisis. That border is one of the most active crossings between the two countries, and over the past year it has become increasingly transited by Venezuelans. Official figures estimate that about 35,000 Venezuelans cross the ...

Two Chevron employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state-owned ... Venezuelan authorities have yet to comment on the arrest of the men, both Venezuelans, and no charges against them have been made public.

While the masses of other Venezuelan migrants have dispersed into cities across Colombia, the Yukpa's concentrated presence on the border has irritated local authorities. Members of the group have repeatedly clashed with Colombian border officials, and even threatened them with bows and arrows.

To ensure that's true, Smolansky is advocating a tough line that includes strengthening sanctions, removing ambassadors in Caracas, and new restrictions on movements of Venezuelan officials who have properties elsewhere in Latin America. He cautions against a U.S. boycott of Venezuelan oil, warning that it might leave ...

The growing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela has sent nearly one million Venezuelans out of the country in the last two years, according to the International Organization for Migration, including many government officials. Some analysts and Venezuela experts believe this new group of ex-leaders from the ...

They reviewed migration flows out of Venezuela to destination countries around the world, including a sharp acceleration in departures as Venezuelans flee the ... Concrete actions are necessary to restrict the ability of corrupt Venezuelan officials and their support networks from abusing the international financial system.

Several shelters (or camps) have now sprung up in Boa Vista, the state capital of Roraima State, on Brazil's extreme northern border with Venezuela. They are not ... Valiant attempts are being made by the authorities, and the few humanitarian actors that have started operations here, to make things better.

The Venezuelan minister said he suggested "sending Venezuelan Su-30 pilots to share their experience in Russia and to invite Russian pilots, who received precious combat experience in Syria, to come and share it with their Venezuelan colleagues." The official added that he accepted Moscow's ...

The letter is meant to encourage Holt and assure him that the politician is continuing to fight for his release from a Venezuelan prison, where he's been ... of sanctions it already has imposed on dozens of top officials, including Maduro himself, for what the U.S. considers Venezuela's slide into a dictatorship.

21, 2018 in Moscow, Kozhin said Simon Zerpa, Venezuela's Minster of Economy and Finance, gave a booklet about the cryptocurrency to the Russian finance minister only to inform the Russians about the project, but none of the parties mentioned reviewed or discussed Russian-Venezuelan activity about ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Dozens of prisoners broke out of jail Friday on the Venezuelan tourist island of Margarita, the military said, adding that a major ... Venezuelan authorities often use police detention centers as places of permanent incarceration to cope with overcrowding in the prison service.

“They're setting up a stand on the front porch of Venezuela to sell snake oil that's essentially backed by nothing,” said Russ Dallen, a managing partner at the investment bank Caracas Capital Markets, which tracks Venezuelan oil shipments and advises U.S. officials on Venezuelan matters. “People believe ...

Venezuelan citizens arrive to La Parada neighborhood of Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela. Aside from providing health care, border cities are also coping with an array of public safety issues, like a rise in prostitution and groups of men, women and children sleeping on the streets.

The opposition in Venezuela has called Maduro's regime a dictatorship for creating a parallel Constituent Assembly that sidelined the National Assembly that is controlled by anti-Maduro forces. The Venezuelan authorities are also accused of the wrongful imprisonment of hundreds of opposition leaders.

Venezuela, which has similar arrangements with Turkey, China, and Russia, proposed the same to India in the light of recent U.S.-imposed sanctions. Currently, nearly 44 Venezuelan officials have been sanctioned by the U.S., including the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, who was branded as ...

Venezuela is planning to launch a new digital currency called the “petro,” which officials in the South American country have billed as a way to ameliorate a dire economic situation. But experts say the petro could be used for more sinister purposes, including corruption and money laundering. Venezuelan ...

In this Feb. 23, 2018 photo, Venezuelan citizens arrive to La Parada neighborhood of Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela. Aside from providing health care, border cities are also coping with an array of public safety issues, like a rise in prostitution and groups of men, women and children ...

Trump Jr. partnered with GOP donor who met with top national security officials to push for curbing sanctions in Venezuela ... their plan for lightening U.S. sanctions in Venezuela in exchange for opening business opportunities for U.S. companies, according to a former U.S. official with direct knowledge of ...

In a meeting with Suresh Prabhu, India's minister of Commerce and Industry, the Venezuelan delegation presented the contents of the nation's new Law for Foreign Productive Investment, drafted by President Nicolas Maduro. The law, approved in December 2017 by Venezuela's National Constituent ...

Officials loyal to Maduro recently approved an early presidential election for April 22, drawing broad condemnation from the United States and several of ... electoral authorities, would reschedule the election for the second half of May to give candidates more time to campaign, allow millions of Venezuelan ...

Venezuelan officials also asserted that the new digital currency — the first to be issued by a nation — would allow investors to do an end run around sanctions imposed against their country by the Trump administration. These sanctions ban the purchase in American markets of new securities issued by the ...

Exclusive: Mexico Foreign Minister Heads to Caribbean to Win Over Venezuelan Allies - Official ... (Reuters) - Mexico's foreign minister will travel to Jamaica, Grenada and Saint Lucia in March, a Mexican official said on Thursday, as part of efforts to erode Venezuela's oil-based influence in the Caribbean.

PDVSA, Venezuela's state-run oil giant, allegedly engaged in a multi-million dollar corruption scheme (Photo: CC-BY-SA-3.0)Four of the defendants were ... And last month, according to Reuters, Venezuelan authorities said they were seeking an Interpol red alert for Rafael Ramirez on corruption charges.